Hollywood Squares

Hollywood Squares is an American panel game show, in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The "board" for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants. The stars are asked questions by the host, or "Square-Master", and the contestants judge the veracity of their answers in order to win the game. Although Hollywood Squares was a legitimate game show, the game largely acted as the background for the show's comedy in the form of joke answers, often given by the stars prior to their "real" answer. The show's writers usually supplied the jokes. In addition, the stars were given question subjects and plausible incorrect answers prior to the show. The show was scripted in this sense, but the gameplay was not. In any case, as host Peter Marshall, the best-known "Square-Master" and the man in whose honor the show's first announcer, Kenny Williams, actually "coined" the term, would explain at the beginning of the Secret Square game, the celebrities were briefed prior to show to help them with bluff answers, but they otherwise heard the actual questions for the first time as they were asked on air.

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Hollywood Squares

Comedy

Reality

Family

Created By: Bob QuigleyMerrill Heatter
First Aired on: Oct 17, 1966
Popularity: 8.2872: 9 votes
Networks: (US)
(US)
Production: Orion TelevisionFilmways TelevisionMerrill Heatter-Bob Quigley ProductionsRhodes ProductionsFour Star TelevisionMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US)NBC (US)
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 68 episodes

Season 1

Aired 59 years ago

68 Episodes

Episode 1THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Debut in living color on NBC-TV.) Monday October 17, 1966.30 min
The 1st 9 Stars are NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, AGNES MOREHEAD & ERNEST BORGNINE.
Episode 2THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Tuesday October 18, 1966)30 min
NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, AGNES MOOREHEAD & ERNEST BORGNINE.
Episode 3THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Wednesday October 19, 1966)30 min
NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON "THE PAMELA MASON SHOW" & ERNEST BORGNINE.
Episode 4THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Thursday October 20, 1966)30 min
NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON & ERNEST BORGNINE (The Center Square.)
Episode 5THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (Friday October 21, 1966)30 min
NICK ADAMS, SALLY FIELD, CHARLEY WEAVER, ABBY DALTON, WALLY COX, ROSE MARIE, MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAMELA MASON & ERNEST BORGNINE.